M-type star · red

HR 8894

HR 8894 is a red in the constellation Cassiopeia 1,717 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,543 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,440× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,717 years ago.

1,717 lybrightness mag 5.56K3II

Also catalogued as HD 220369 · HIP 115395

3,543 K
temperature
5.56
apparent magnitude
1,440× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,717 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
1,440×
the Sun's light output
-3.05
absolute magnitude
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HR 8894M-type
Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction
Star2 Cas61 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cassiopeia

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.